How to Use eerily in a Sentence

eerily

adverb

• On the right, the back of Suzanne’s head pokes eerily out of nowhere.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• In the hours after the battle, the village was eerily silent.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• As he was wheeled off, Tres refused to give a thumbs-up to the crowd, which had gone eerily silent.
  — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2022
• In the area around the Fukushima plant the impact of the disaster is eerily clear.
  — Janis MacKey Frayer, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
• The Salmon, widening, seemed almost devoid of fish, and the sky was eerily free of birds.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• The dirty streets, the petty crime, the eerily silent transit stations.
  — Heather Knight, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• Things felt eerily similar to the first few days of the Covid lockdown.
  — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• Then, back in the present day, a shoebox-size package addressed eerily to Bloom and Rage is brought to the bar.
  — Harold Goldberg, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
• The sound was eerily like Olivia’s cry at that age, as if emerging from a time capsule.
  — Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• Then, what should have been the busiest part of the season was instead eerily quiet.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2024
• Your voice in these shows is almost eerily unchanged from the records.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• One of my favorites was a maze-like bathhouse that, compared to the rest of the game, was eerily quiet.
  — Jay Peters, The Verge, 18 Jan. 2025
• And even though Tokyo is the most populated city in the world, the streets can be almost eerily silent.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2021
• The highways, once backed up with traffic, were now eerily silent.
  — Bonnie Marcus, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• The ship’s wheel was eerily spinning on its own, and everything was left in place.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• Mel has been on the ground and sent this dispatch Monday from an eerily quiet Paris.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 26 July 2024
• Brooks said the crowd grew eerily quiet when Woods collapsed.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2023
• Vincent eerily likened the hip-drop tackle to the horse-collar technique that was banned in 2005.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• To critics and skeptics of their work, their ascent to fame seems eerily sudden and too good to be true.
  — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
• But in a 6-5 walk-off loss to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night, the team’s recent on-field scuffles seemed eerily unchanged.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
• One day, all animals vanish and the forest turns eerily quiet, yet for the men-the hunt must go on.
  — Annika Pham, Variety, 29 Jan. 2024
• An eerily similar story played out in Paradise when the Camp Fire reached the town.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• This danger is eerily reflected in the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.
  — Gerui Wang, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• New York was eerily orange on Wednesday as smoke shrouded the city.
  — Amelia Holowaty Krales, The Verge, 7 June 2023
• The store was calm, organized, well stocked, and eerily normal.
  — Dylan Tupper Rupert, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024
• The clouds broke and the sun peeked through for the first time in two days, revealing an eerily calm sky as floodwaters roared beneath.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
• Tents, tarps and metallic blankets crinkled in the wind, the life that recently filled the space eerily absent.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2023
• The light bulb flicks on and Belinda makes the connection, and is able to place that eerily familiar face.
  — Dan Heching, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
• For hours afterward, the yacht crew kept eerily quiet and beamed its brightest lights to better hear and see.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• Shakira's use of a metallic wolf on stage, a large and dramatic visual element, was eerily similar to Beyoncé's giant silver horse.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025